CCTV images have been released showing a man walking near his home shortly before his brutal murder.

CCTV images have been released showing a man walking near his home shortly before his brutal murder.

Graeme Melville is seen walking in Lanark’s Thomas Taylor Avenue around 3am on December 15.

He’s heading towards Smyllum Road, where police were called to flats at 4am and found Graeme dead.

A post mortem showed the bodybuilder, 25, had been stabbed to death.

He had been freed from prison weeks earlier.

Police released the CCTV footage yesterday.

DCI Louise Raphael, who is leading the murder hunt, said yesterday: “I am re-appealing to anyone who may have any information about his movements in the hours leading up to his death to contact me as soon as possible.

“I would ask the public to look carefully at the images in the hope it may jog their memories.

“Graeme was well known locally and I am convinced the local community hold the key to this investigation.”